CE King's College, Cambridge. Wed, 4th March

[ardcarp]

the precentor was ........ suddenly booming in yer face

I found it slightly comical [how naughty in Lent of all thins] especially as there was little gap (in the Preces at least) between call and response. Was he in fact a member of the choir, wOnderfunk? It sounded like it.

[DracoM]

Surely not! That was an ....ahem....mature sounding boom to me!!

[Simon Biazeck]

I found it slightly comical [how naughty in Lent of all thins] especially as there was little gap (in the Preces at least) between call and response. Was he in fact a member of the choir, wOnderfunk? It sounded like it.

No, I know him. He is not a member of the choir, although he used to be a professional singer.

[Wolsey]

I don't know who June Nixon was, but as it's Women's Week, do tell us.

Surely the internet could have yielded an answer for you in seconds.

June Nixon has had a distinguished career in church music in Australia and is very well-known in UK cathedral music circles by her colleagues. She was Organist and Director of Music at St. Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne from 1973 - 2013 and is Organist Emerita there. She was also the first woman to gain the John Brooke prize for choir training in the Royal College of Organists’ Choirmaster’s diploma (CHM) - since superseded. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Queen’s 1998 Birthday Honours for services to church music, and in the following year received the Lambeth Degree of Doctor of Music. Her setting of The Holly and the Ivy was sung in the 2010 King’s Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. My choir also uses one of her chants.

Like Margaret Rizza, June Nixon is a stalwart of the Kevin Mayhew catalogue.

Unlike Margaret Rizza, Dr Nixon is also published by Paraclete Press and Encore Publications.

[ardcarp]

Surely the internet could have yielded an answer for you in seconds.

Well, yes, but it's good to hear stuff from people on the Forum who know.

[ardcarp]

Those listening to Sunday's repeat of CE may care to focus on the beginning of the second set of responses. I must admit I wasn't paying full attention when I listened on Wednesday in the car, so missed the...slight hiccup, shall we say? Another listener drew my attention to it. Not that we should delight in the misfortunes of others.

[Alison]

Those listening to Sunday's repeat of CE may care to focus on the beginning of the second set of responses. I must admit I wasn't paying full attention when I listened on Wednesday in the car, so missed the...slight hiccup, shall we say? Another listener drew my attention to it. Not that we should delight in the misfortunes of others.

Ah, a missable Choral Evensong now becomes required listening.

Funny old lot aren't we?!

[Wolsey]

Those listening to Sunday's repeat of CE may care to focus on the beginning of the second set of responses. I must admit I wasn't paying full attention when I listened on Wednesday in the car, so missed the...slight hiccup, shall we say? Another listener drew my attention to it. Not that we should delight in the misfortunes of others.

I sincerely hope not. I have been appalled at the gloating and arrogance shown by a few troll-like contributors to some Facebook discussions. It seems apparent that the plan was for the second set of responses to be transposed down a semitone. The Chaplain sang the first response at pitch and then corrected himself by coming in at the intended, transposed, pitch in the next response. A couple (if that) of the sixteen trebles were momentarily fazed at the beginning of the dotted minim of 'Lord have mercy upon us', and that is all. From the hysterical and unnecessary threads on Facebook, anyone would have thought that the Anglican choral tradition was facing Armageddon. All foundations occasionally make mistakes - and they even happen in broadcasts. Get over it and move on.

[ardcarp]

I have.

[Y Mab Afradlon]

"a few troll-like contributors"

Are they confined to Facebook then?

[James Wonnacott]

CE, along with the dog walk which follows it, is usually one of Sunday's highlights for me.
Sadly, not today. I enjoyed the responses and perhaps the anthem a little, but that's about it.
C'mon you two, walkies.

[mopsus]

I expect there is a solid Wells core in Chants Old and New, but I am sure the contents must have been drawn from a variety of sources. A number seem to have been taken from the Norwich chant book of the Michael Nicholas era.

My path crosses Anthony Crossland's from time to time, so I can ask him about his sources for the collection when I next see him. My copy of Chants Old and New is out on permanent loan to a local church choir director so I can't check, but he does write about them in the introduction.